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TechCrunch is thrilled to introduce the impressive group of companies participating in this year’s Startup Battlefield. The Battlefield serves to showcase the best and most promising early-stage startups in the industry, and this batch does not disappoint.

There is a bit from every industry including medical diagnostics, enterprise mobile tools and social curation to financial technology and gaming. Participating companies hail from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ireland, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, the U.S. and the U.K.

Over the past month, these companies have been working tirelessly to push that last batch off the manufacturing line, get approved by the app store or finish a redesign. They’ll have the chance to showcase all their hard work onstage today during their six-minute Battlefield sessions. Tuesday, our selected finalists will have a chance to win $50,000 and the European Disrupt Cup.

One lucky company exhibiting in Startup Alley will get a chance to present in Startup Battlefield through audience vote.

Battlefield companies will also be showcasing in the Startup Alley both days of the conference. General admission tickets are still available. Stop by and see what all the fuss is about.

Here are the companies in order of appearance:

Disrupt London, Startup Battlefield

Number26

NUMBER26 offers real time banking, a mobile focused current account, MasterCard® inclusive, no fees attached – secure, simple and transparent. All expenditures are tracked instantly, and clever statistics help users to keep their finances under control. Transfers finally become simple. Even send money to friends via email, text or Facebook.

Sign2Pay

Sign2Pay is a High Conversion Mobile payment method. The consumer can quickly pay on mobile while the merchant sees a high conversion. It innovates in security by doing the risk assessment upfront and authentication through signature recognition.

4/14

Lobster

Lobster is a marketplace for user generated content. An ‘iTunes for social content’ that disrupts the way digital media can access it. Users license their Flickr and Instagram photos to others in a legal, effortless and rewarding way. Lobster will source and index content automatically when users add #ilobsterit hashtag.

5/14

Crate

Crate makes central database servers obsolete, it allows you to launch a highly scalable backend in minutes. Based on the familiar SQL syntax, Crate combines high availability, resiliency, and scalability in a distributed design that allows you to query mountains of data in realtime, not batches. Easy to scale, simple to use.

6/14

IO

IO is a social concierge that knows everything about lifestyle and travel and talks to you in natural language in a messenger app. Powered by a proprietary object-oriented conversational manager technology.

7/14

ONDiGO

ONDiGO is a Mobile CRM for sales-people and small-businesses on-the-go. ONDiGO adapts to the way people work nowadays by automatically building a customer database from day-to-day interactions conducted on mobile devices. Deeply integrated into the mobile device, ONDiGO automatically captures emails interactions, calendar events, calls, text messages, notes and tasks, and eliminates manual data-entry.

8/14

Levebee

Levebee improves reading and helps with reading disorder conditions, including dyslexia, by providing a new-generation learning tool to students, parents, teachers and related professionals. Based on proven exercises used in the reading disorder treatment praxis, the app creates an individual set of exercises for each reader that adapts to the current reader’s skills.

9/14

Oscult by Oscadi

At Oscadi, we’re seeking to bring excellence to our users. We do so with simple and yet powerful devices like Oscult, our first product. Oscult is an imaging device interfaced with an iPad Air, changing the way medical devices are used. Our full featured iPad app, allows a rich, precise and connected experience.

Disease Diagnostics Group

What if we told you we could save one million lives every year with just refrigerator magnets and a laser pointer? DDG uses magneto-optical technology to change the way diseases are diagnosed. Our mission is to create a low-cost, reusable device that can reach the patient and differentiate multiple diseases.

12/14

PhotoMath

PhotoMath is the world’s first camera calculator app. Point your phone camera toward a math expression and get an instant solution with detailed solving steps. Company behind PhotoMath is MicroBlink, with its mobile vision and real-time text recognition technology. Get PhotoMath on Appstore or check our technology at http://www.microblink.com.

13/14

Instant API

Instant API makes it easy to Create, Host & Manage APIs from Existing Data and Services. What used to take a skilled team months can now be done in minutes and at a Fraction of the Cost. Most companies can realize a saving of at least 10K per API per year.

14/14

CareZapp

CareZapp is a caring community to support people who need or provide care at home. It’s the easiest way for you or a loved one to create a home-based care network, to be alerted and kept informed at all times, and to get all the help that you need.